“Is sense perception an accurate way of knowing?”

since our childhood we are being taught that seeing is believing. But not every time everything we see is true. This is a very bitter truth, but not always what we see is wrong. To justify my points I will come up with certain examples that we see in our regular life. Not only what is, our senses include ears, skin, tongue, nose. But before coming to the examples for all, I will go with seeing.

 I will put up a picture infront of you.

After seeing these pictures, wont you agree to what I said. Seeing is not always believing. But seeing is believing, I say there is Taj Mahal in Agra, it is there. I say there is a tree at the corner that is because I saw it there, there was no illusion.

Today in our TOK class we saw a video, in which optical illusion and technology was used to create a image of a beautiful girl which wasn’t the real her, in real she was a ugly as a duck. She was made that way, although the real her was really ugly. Another video was of a handsome boy, who again using technology was made ugly. One concept, and totally different uses. Do you think what you see is true? Are you sure it is not illusions, but misconception. It is because the human psychology is such that it perceives what it sees. These sights then become our ideas, and where it comes from is our prior knowledge, we start claiming our sight as a fact.